Gigabyte EP45-UD3P - out of the box and almost auto setting -> boot @ 620FSB easy.

[PcCI2iminal]

yeah i can imagine
that last CPU was similar to mine heh

but knowing you i'm sure you will stumble on something soon hehehe

new toys comin very soon

[nugzo]

I was opening a new tab to newegg after reading first half of thread. I've since closed it without ordering. i'll wait for a few. Sorry for your loss guys. Who had the 3rd e8600 die? PcCI2 (1) , dinos (2) and ?. My EVGA 680i's all had that high pitched noise while stressing. Annoying!!

Wth, i ordered it anyway. I havent seen many people using yorkies on the UD3 so i'll start my testing with a q9650 instead of e8600. It should be delivered tomorrow.

[nugzo]

but i have a great Q9550 E0
3870MHz @ 1.22v and 4GHz @ 1.288v (only for benching)



4GHz @ 1,22v

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=425560

Did u do any max FSB testing with the 9550?

Nevermind.. I see you were using the biostar. I assumed it was the ud3 since it was a ud3 thread.

[PcCI2iminal]

Did u do any max FSB testing with the 9550?

497FSB on Gigabyte vs 480FSB on Biostar ^^

[Nelly]

Hi there,

Just recieved my Gigabyte EP45-UD3R today, I also have the very latest BETA Bios for this specific motherboard from a Gigabyte Tech.

EP45UD3R.F4a

This is beta, I havent tried yet rigging my system up tonight.

DO NOT USE for the EP45-UD3P

[golfjam]

I had the same problem w/ my Q9550 E0. Solid stable at 450x8.5 w/ only 1.28v but crashed anything beyond that. I could do 500x8 or 475x8.5 for benches but prime crashed after 12~21 min. I've tried everything but nothing worked. The same happened using my previous P5Q Deluxe, but not benchable, so it's the chip, not the mobo. I got another Q9650 on the way, hopefully I'll be able to go over 4ghz 24/7 this time.

[nugzo]

Wth, i ordered it anyway. I havent seen many people using yorkies on the UD3 so i'll start my testing with a q9650 instead of e8600. It should be delivered tomorrow.

Board is installed and running at 500*9 4500mhz 1.39v in windows with the q9650. I changed the main voltages but left most everything on auto. I fail core 2 after about 5 minutes with blend or small fft. I think after some tweaking i'll be ok. What gtl would you guys recommend for yorkies? alright back to testing.....

[MaximumPig]

Hey thanks Nelly you made my day with the UD3R bios. Where'd ya get it ?

[bingo13]

yeah with 1.5VTT like you guys have been claiming.... admit it you got it wrong

I admit, we got it wrong, this CPU went south with 1.45V VTT and 1.4V PLL real on this board. I hate to say I told you so, but what the hell, I told you so.

I got a new board and E8600 yesterday, so far, so good on F5A but this E8600 sucks compared to my first one. Maybe something was up with the initial batch of boards or the gremlins had a sense of humor screwing around with our first board. I just know as soon as I dialed it up a little, it went south. The new board never blinked on the first overclock.

[nugzo]

I've had this board up and running an hour. I previously had 2-Striker 2 Formulas, 1-MSI P7N diamond, 1-EVGA 780 FTW,
2- Maximus 2 formulas and 1- Rampage Extreme.My goal was a Q9650 4500Mhz 500x9 on Air. None of the other boards could do it.
Closest stable was 490x9 with the MIIF. I've only had 1 BSOD with this board and it only took an hour for the beginnings of an oustanding OC session.
This is what i call FUN! I've booted into windows at 533X8 only to get my 1 and only BSOD after 10-15 seconds.
That was with no extra voltage over what i'm running now. I'll be checking for max FSB Next.

Thanks to napalm for some bios settings.

[Nelly]

Hi there,

Just recieved my Gigabyte EP45-UD3R today, I also have the very latest BETA Bios for this specific motherboard from a Gigabyte Tech.

EP45UD3R.F4a

This is beta, I havent tried yet rigging my system up tonight.

DO NOT USE for the EP45-UD3P

Hey thanks Nelly you made my day with the UD3R bios. Where'd ya get it ?

Hi, Via E-mail directly from a Gigabyte Tech in Taiwan.

I didn't see no point in having the flagship version - EP45-UD3P.

I only use 1 Graphics Card & I would never use dual GbE Lan or onboard dolby surround sound - got X-fi Titanium on the way anyway.

Hence why I chose the Gigabyte EP45-UD3R I think a majority of people bought the P version for the sake of it lol.

[dinos22]

I admit, we got it wrong, this CPU went south with 1.45V VTT and 1.4V PLL real on this board. I hate to say I told you so, but what the hell, I told you so.

I got a new board and E8600 yesterday, so far, so good on F5A but this E8600 sucks compared to my first one. Maybe something was up with the initial batch of boards or the gremlins had a sense of humor screwing around with our first board. I just know as soon as I dialed it up a little, it went south. The new board never blinked on the first overclock.

lol so what killed it Gary :p

[M-XXXX]

http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?i...apimagebq7.jpg
Need help

Damn, now it should work!

[PcCI2iminal]

I've had this board up and running an hour. I previously had 2-Striker 2 Formulas, 1-MSI P7N diamond, 1-EVGA 780 FTW,
2- Maximus 2 formulas and 1- Rampage Extreme.My goal was a Q9650 4500Mhz 500x9 on Air. None of the other boards could do it.
Closest stable was 490x9 with the MIIF. I've only had 1 BSOD with this board and it only took an hour for the beginnings of an oustanding OC session.
This is what i call FUN! I've booted into windows at 533X8 only to get my 1 and only BSOD after 10-15 seconds.
That was with no extra voltage over what i'm running now. I'll be checking for max FSB Next.

Thanks to napalm for some bios settings.

533 soundz great for a quad

nugzo,care to share the bios settings??

M-XXXX

i can not open the screen ....

[M-XXXX]

Fixed
http://shrani.si/?3b/DW/17OHamn7/new-bitmap-image.jpg

[PcCI2iminal]

Fixed
http://shrani.si/?3b/DW/17OHamn7/new-bitmap-image.jpg

its not workin yet

imageshack?

[Slovnaft]

533 soundz great for a quad

nugzo,care to share the bios settings??

M-XXXX

i can not open the screen ....

dood, i got 8x 543 on my q9450 for a quick validation and 8x 540 for SPi 1M. (on air)
I think i can do higher when i get under dice, NB volts make a big difference.
Anyone up for 600fsb on a quad?!

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=437871
http://hwbot.org/signature.img?iid=161004&thumb=false (bad ram + oldish vista, kinda slow)

[M-XXXX]

its not workin yet

imageshack?

Damn shrani.si



http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?i...apimagebq7.jpg

Can you se it now?

[Slovnaft]

Damn shrani.si



http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?i...apimagebq7.jpg

Can you se it now?

First off WAYY too much VTT!!! I haven't gone over 1.52 for 530 quad fsb 3d benching stable, and even around there i was nervous! You really could have hurt your chip already...
Bump that all the way down to 1.32~1.4

More VNB--go to around 1.5~1.6 should get you stable. Though you shouldn't need that much for 475-480, i can get 500 at 1.5v so i'm guessing this is probably your cpu's limitations.

[M-XXXX]

First off WAYY too much VTT!!! I haven't gone over 1.52 for 530 quad fsb 3d benching stable, and even around there i was nervous! You really could have hurt your chip already...
Bump that all the way down to 1.32~1.4

More VNB--go to around 1.5~1.6 should get you stable. Though you shouldn't need that much for 475-480, i can get 500 at 1.5v so i'm guessing this is probably your cpu's limitations.

As I have told- tryed many different values and nothing helps (from 1.2 to 1.55 for VTT) Tryed 1.65V for VNB and its the same- isnt stable for 485mhz FSB!
And there isnt any cpu limitations (E8600 goes 620, and E8500 goes at least 580fsb) Any more solutions?

[Slovnaft]

Oh this is a E86? euugh that bites. i thought you were on a quad core, by which ~480 might be a reasonable fsb limit but...dang sorry that sucks.

[M-XXXX]

Oh this is a E86? euugh that bites. i thought you were on a quad core, by which ~480 might be a reasonable fsb limit but...dang sorry that sucks.

Its the same with E8500 and E8600! Stability wall is about 480...

DOES ANY ONE USES D9GHM and UD3P???

[Slovnaft]

Its the same with E8500 and E8600! Stability wall is about 480...

DOES ANY ONE USES D9GHM and UD3P???

I'm about to (RAM's in the mail) do you think that is the culprit? i mean, people have gotten 1200 at 2.2v with those ic's...

[M-XXXX]

I'm about to (RAM's in the mail) do you think that is the culprit? i mean, people have gotten 1200 at 2.2v with those ic's...

Sory i dont understand what do you think with that...

My ram can do about 1350mhz without problems...

[nugzo]

533 soundz great for a quad

nugzo,care to share the bios settings??

Here is a Template of my bios settings for the above.
I'm not as stable as i want to be so i'm still adjusting.
Fail blend after about 45minutes.
I dropped to 8x multi and loosened memory timings
Priming has been going over an hour now. I will update
this thread with my final settings .

******Gigabyte EP45 UD3 Template*******

Q9650 500*9 4500Mhz



Robust Graphics Booster [Auto]
CPU Clock Ratio [9]
Fine CPU Clock Ratio [0]

**********Clock Chip Control***************

CPU Host Clock Control [Enabled]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) [500]
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz) [Auto]
C.I.A 2 [Disabled]

*********Advanced Clock Control**********

CPU Clock Drive [1000mv]
PCI Express Clock Drive [1000mv]
CPU Clock Skew [0ps]
MCH Clock Skew [0ps]

*******DRAM Performance Control********

Performance Enhance [Standard]
Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) [Disabled]
(G) MCH Frequency Latch [Auto]
System Memory Multipler [2.00D]
Memory Frequency [1000]
DRAM Timing Selectable [Manual]

CAS Latency Time [5]
tRCD [5]
tRP [4]
tRAS [13]

*******Advanced Timing Control***********

tRRD [3]
tWTR [3]
tWR [6]
tRFC [48]
tRTP [3]
Command Rate (cmd) [2]


***********Motherboard Voltage Control*******

Load-Line Calibration [Enabled]
CPU Vcore [1.44375] (1.41 Windows)
CPU Termination [1.44]
CPU PLL [1.65]
CPU Reference [Auto]

MCH Core [1.6] 
MCH Reference [Auto]
MCH/DRAM Refernce [Auto]
ICH I/O [1.57]
ICH Core [1.2]

DRAM Voltage [2.2]
DRAM Termination [Auto]
Channel A Ref [Auto]
Channel B Ref [Auto]

Channel Timing Settings    

Static tRead Value [10]
tRD Phase0 Adjustment [0]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment [0]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment [0]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment [0]

tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [8]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [8]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [7]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [9]

Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control [+300]
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control [+300]
DDR Write Training [Enabled]

Channel Driving Settings

Drive Strength Profile [Auto]
Data Driving Pull Up Level [Auto]
cmd Driving Pull Up Level [Auto]
ctrl Driving Pull Up Level [Auto]
clk Driving Pull Up Level [Auto]

Data Driving Pull Down Level [Auto]
cmd Driving Pull Down Level [Auto]
ctrl Driving Pull Down Level [Auto]
clk Driving Pull Down Level [Auto]

*****************Advanced BIOS Features*********

CPU Multithreading [Disabled]
Limit CPUID Max to 3 [Disabled]
No-Execute memory Protect [Disabled]
CPU Enhance Halt (CIE) [Disabled]
C2/C2E State Support [Disabled]
C4/C4E State Support [Disabled]
CPU Thermal Monitor [Disabled]
CPU EIST Function [Disabled]
Virtualization Technology [Disabled]